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50 Pfennig Steinkohlenbergwerk Friedrich Heinrich
| Issuer | Steinkohlenbergwerk Friedrich Heinrich Aktiengesellschaft |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-green underprint with a large oval guilloche vignette at centre. The text is set in Fraktur blackletter script throughout: the heading reads 'Gutschein' at top, followed by 'über fünfzig Pfg.' with the numeral '50' repeated at left and right. The issuer's name 'Steinkohlenbergwerk Friedrich Heinrich Aktiengesellschaft' and place-date 'Lintfort, den 1. Mai 1917' are centred below the value. A red alphanumeric series designation 'Lit. U' appears at upper right, a red serial number at lower left, and the printed caption 'Der Generaldirektor:' above a manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Light-green underprint with a large central oval guilloche vignette. The numeral '50' appears in each of the four corners, with 'Pfg.' in Fraktur script at the left and right margins. The centre is occupied by a seven-line Fraktur text block stating the conditions of validity, indicating that the voucher is valid only for internal use within the Steinkohlenbergwerk Friedrich Heinrich Aktiengesellschaft and its associated establishments, and that it loses validity one month after cancellation by the Generaldirektion, with the company guaranteeing redemption. |
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Friedrich Heinrich was a coalmine operating in Lintfort, in the lower Rhine coalfield — one of the last major Ruhr-adjacent fields to be developed, with serious extraction only beginning around 1912. By 1917, wartime disruption to the Reichsbank's small-change supply had forced hundreds of German industrial employers to issue their own Notgeld to pay workers, since coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely. A colliery issuing its own scrip was not unusual; a colliery this young doing so reflects how rapidly the Friedrich Heinrich operation had scaled up in just five years.